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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Quotes by John Calvin

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

Quotes by John Burdett

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Quotes by John Burns

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a...

Quotes by John Byng

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States,...

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

Quotes by John Boyne

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Quotes by John Buchan

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Quotes by John Berger

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Quotes by John Banville

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is...

Quotes by John Banville

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Quotes by John Barton

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

Quotes by John Bercow

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked...

Quotes by Johann Johannsson

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

Quotes by Johan Renck

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current...

Quotes by Johan Rockstrom

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of...

Quotes by Joel Grey

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Quotes by Joe Wright

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Quotes by Joel A. Barker

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of "Past" quotes are featured here?
This page mixes historical and scientific reflection with personal insight — from a mid-20th-century comment about uranium and global power, to a physics-based explanation of the uncertainty relation and the past, to a short, direct line about building your future instead of dwelling on your past. For more on turning points and difficult change, see the Broken quotes page.
Is there a quote about physics or science?
Yes, one quote explains, "The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past," describing how measuring an electron's position and velocity affects what can be known about its earlier state. For more on this kind of clear-eyed thinking, see the Truth quotes page.
Is there a short, quotable line about moving on from the past?
Yes: "Create your future from your future not your past." It's a compact reminder to focus forward rather than staying anchored to what's already happened. If you're drawn to short lines like this, browse the Mistake quotes page too.
Is there a historical quote referencing world events?
Yes, one quote reflects on uranium, predicting it "will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination." It's a historical perspective on how nuclear power might reshape global politics.
Is there a quote about education and opportunity?
Yes, one quote comes from someone reflecting on founding organizations that "recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity," tying personal history to a broader mission. For related themes, see the Memories quotes page.

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